Dawn Of The Vampires

Street Fight

          -Derek-

   I look at all the thugs. Now don't get me wrong, I know how to hold my own in a fight. But I'm no Jackie Chan. And I don't trust this kid's mouth for a minute.

         "Uh, Leo don't do anything stupid," I say.

  He kicks his legs into my sides and I growl. "Stupid!?! Hardly. Now let's go," he scoffs.

         I begrudgingly carry on.

   
                -Marcus-

   I keep looking ahead at all times. I can hear them yelling names at me. Most of them being 'Freak'. I look at my feet, and rush ahead, straight through traffic. A few angry drivers honk their horns at me.

        I forget to look up, and end up running straight into something. Bump. Make that someone. I look up and see this guy in a white hoodie helping me up. He places his arm around my shoulder and grins at me.

          "Hey, little bro, you doing alright. Mom told me to come pick you up or we'll be late for the party."

     Who is this guy? "See. She even sent cousin whatchimicallit, to help get ready," he says pointing at a guy standing behind him, who looks as if he'd rather be anywhere else but here.

       The gang starts walking towards us. "This little punk your brother?" The leader, nicknamed Fang, asks the kid in the hoodie.

       The kid looks at them and a mischievous smile fills his face. "You guys must be the catering crew. You're late. Hurry and follow me or mom's gonna have a cow."

      Fang steps forward. "Hey asshole, do me a favor."

    "Yeah? Hope it involves cake," the kid says.

      Fang sneers. "Go back to whatever rock you crawled out from under."

    "Actually, it was tree," he says.

   "That's it. You, me, one on one, let's go. I'm gonna teach you how to shut that mouth. That'll be the only gift you're getting for your stupid birthday."

       The kid hops into Fang's arms and looks up at him. "You remembered!! Aw, you guys are the best," he says, smiling up into Fang's face. Fang looks at him, and then dumps him out of his arms. The kid sprawls out on the ground and fake pouts. "Well if you're gonna be that way about it then, fine. You guys aren't invited."

      Fang grabs him by the front of the jacket and slams him against the wall, pinning him.

       "You wanna be a smartass, then you can die like one. Now what ya gotta say to that, punk?"

     The kid looks up into the air as if he's deep in thought. Then he looks back at Fang. With a smile of course. "I like blue frosting on my cakes."

          Fang growls and tosses the kid to the ground and lunges at him. Hoodie easily dodges the attack and he jumps up and tosses a book he'd been holding the whole time to the guy who was with him. Then he starts rolling up his jacket sleeves. I notice  a tattoo on his left arm that says, 'Born to Kill'.

       He also has a skull ring on his right hand. He extends his hand to Fang. "My name's Leo, by the way."

         Fang grabs his hand and slings him towards the wall. Leo uses momentum to his advantage and kicks back off the wall backslapping Fang. Fang growls and thrashes out, but Leo outmaneuvers him, and catches his hand. He twists his arm, and positions his right foot on the inside of Fang's left foot. That way he's able to tell when Fang's gonna try to make a move.

       He uses his hand that's holding Fang's arm to gather the other one and hold them high above Fang's head, putting him on his tiptoes. Now Fang looks like some kind of twisted ballerina. Leo leans in and whispers something to him causing Fang to growl. Then Leo headbutts him.

        Fang falls back into the wall, flailing his arms around trying to catch something. His head busts into the wall and blood splats. Leo then grabs his shoulder and squeezes it, pulling him towards him. He uses his left foot to sweep him and maneuver Fang onto his knees. Then he grabs Fang's hair and yanks it all the way back until Fang's head is tilted back, his mouth open in a scream. Quick as a viper, Leo grabs Fang's tongue and snatches it out his mouth, stretching it nearly to the breaking point. Fang whimpers, but can't speak as Leo squeezes his tongue, and stretches it.

        "The only thing stopping me from doing what I should do, is that innocent little kid over there. So if I ever hear that you've been bothering him again..." He yanks on Fang's tongue causing him to yelp. "I'll finish this."

        He let's go of Fang's hair and tongue but holds him onto the ground. He raises his hand, while Fang squeezes his eyes shut and flinches. Leo bitch slaps him. "You're my bitch, now," he whispers and drops him. Then he grabs my hand and we walk away.

       I suddenly hear shouting. "You crazy motherfucker. You wanna cross us," says another gang member.

          They all start running at Leo. He just chuckles, and the other guy with him takes my hand and leads me away. Leo turns and faces the gang. "Shoulda known you assholes wouldn't stick to the rules." His eyes begin to glow with fire as his face burns off. There is some kind of demon or monster standing in his place, wearing the same hoodie. He laughs. I watch the fire around his head, blaze.

      "Let's play!!!" He yells and rushes at the gang.